THE BEST FINANCE NEWS ON PAGES 36 - 39 Issue No. 1910 10 - 16 February 2022
Tourist tax
NOBODY in the Valencian Community wants a tourism tax. The only exception are the minority partners in the re‐ gional government’s PSOE‐ Compromis‐Podemos coali‐ tion, who are forcing a vote in Les Corts, the regional parlia‐ ment. Before this can happen, rep‐ resentatives from all sectors of the tourist industry headed by Hosbec, which represents Va‐ lencian Community hoteliers, created the www.noalatasat‐ uristica.com platform to fight the proposed tax. Within 24 hours there were 1,400 signatures on the online document and one of them belonged to Francesc Colomer, a member of the regional gov‐ ernment who heads Valencian Community’s Tourist Board. Colomer, from the PSOE party, makes no secret of his outright rejection of the tax in any form. “Collecting signatures is a democratic gesture against a tax that I am opposed to. What’s more, this has come during the sixth Covid wave,” Colomer said.
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Time saver THE Denia Health District (DSD) is now five times faster in responding to patients’ queries. With Telegram, ChatWeb or WhatsApp users can contact an operator to carry out administrative pro‐ cedures and also make appointments. If the DSD handled 2,300 enquiries in November, it was able to deal with 13,000 during the last week in January, announced Susana de Gea who is in charge of the scheme. “Users are very satisfied because this service al‐ lows them to carry out or initiate procedures with‐ out having to go to their Health centre or waiting for a phone call to be answered,” Susana said. “What’s more, we promise to answer within 24 hours on working days.” Instant messaging is fast becoming people’s pre‐ ferred way to contact the DSD, she added. “Most contact us via WhatsApp,” Susana revealed. “Mainly they want to clear up doubts about Covid‐19 and make appointments for Primary Care or the hos‐ pital. They also ask for documents regarding their clinical history and information about SIP cards.”